In what ways could WUaS contribute to helping you to build the Wikitionary dbnary database with RDFs also anticipating a universal translator in this project? WUaS hasn't hired or funded any projects whatsoever yet, but we plan to do both. (And WUaS is currently communicating with the Italian Cultural Center in SF and its related ISS school re hiring the very first director of Italian language World University and School - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/05/leafy-seadragon-first-wuas-job.html - where the ICC and ISS would fund this half-time WUaS position). 

In addition to working with all 7,943 languages (re my IBM CSIG Universal Translator talk tomorrow morning with slides here http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/05/12-initial-foci-of-wuas-universal.html), WUaS wants our wiki-informed Universal Translator to work with so-called "dead" languages too, so the etymological history approach to the dbnary database in your project has many parallels and much value. CC Wikitionary's word/lexical-centricity, as well as potentially parts of words-centricity, as well as potentially phoneme-centricity (for voice) will be central to the planned WUaS Universal Translator, too. Wikimedia's Creative Commons' licensing is also central to Creative Commons' licensed WUaS. And WUaS's Universal Translator in its lexicality focus will eventually further WUaS and other multi-lingual online brain-language research - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ and via the Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences wiki subject page  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences - planned in many languages. 

WUaS would like also its universal translator to eventually be in a realistic virtual earth (i.e. film-realistic, interactive, 3D, wiki-build-able, and in all 7,943 languages) such as in Google Street View/Maps/Earth with its time slider with OpenSim/SecondLife, in which your etymological trees eventually could be seen, for example, in classrooms therein (e.g. in rooms at the virtual University of Chicago in this planned realistic virtual earth with time slider), but also in a variety of other ways. 

Could WUaS eventually support your project faculty-wise WUaS University (e..g. Italian language WUaS) by WUaS University (e.g. Serbian language WUaS) in combination with developing a universal translator? Could WUaS apply for/co-author a parallel project which would further support your interesting project and help develop the Universal Translator as well? Could WUaS/I become a co-author? WUaS is planning to facilitate each countries' main language creating their own major research university with free CC accrediting degrees (e.g. on http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/). How might you, Ester, see us collaborating further in generative ways? 

(Apologies for not speaking Italian).

Thank you,

Scott